Hello all, if you hadn't heard yet, there will be a dinner, panel
discussion, and small break out groups to discuss the G20 and
resistance to it this September.
The event description and bios for the speakers (more may come) are
below and the flier will be posted.
Event: G20 Rock Out!!
Date: Thursday, August 13th
Time: 5:30 pm-Dinner
7:00 pm-Participatory Panel Discussion (mostly Question and Answer format)
8:30 pm-Break out groups and other activities
Place: The Discovery Zone, 74 Dwight St., New Haven, CT.
Tell your friends and pass it on to groups or those that might be interested!
Come on out!!
Globalization has promised us better lives, not for just the United
States, but for the world. The free movement of goods, ideas, and
people across borders should be something that enriches lives and
communities globally. Instead the IMF [1], World Bank, WTO [2], G8, G10 and
G20 have imposed the worsening of living, working and environmental
conditions globally, and threatened the independence and
self-direction of communities. Here in the United States, many
industries and jobs are moving abroad to take advantage of the
desperate circumstances corporate globalization has created.
The G20- a Group of the 20 wealthiest nations is meeting to do damage
control and to continue the quest for continued profit and control
unimpeded. The collapsed economies of Zambia and Argentina, the latter
whom defaulted on their loans from the IMF, are in crisis largely due
to the work of IMF and World Bank intervention. These institutions
operate by loaning money with heavy attachments that often include
market & environmental deregulation, privatization, layoffs, cutting
of social services, wage freezes, militarization of police, stifling
dissent, union busting, and other atrocious changes.
Amidst corporate gangs and bidding wars on the health and independence
of communities, many are resisting globalization through their own,
varied means. There have been mass demonstrations surrounding every
major summit, meeting and conference, all with increasing sincerity
and intensity as the failed institutions are given more power with
every meeting.
The next G20 Summit is in Pittsburgh this September and we cannot
afford to let it go unnoticed and unopposed.
Come eat dinner with local people, neighbors and organizers, learn about
the G20 from a panel actively engaged with the audience, and participate
in activities to brainstorm methods of resistance and how they might be
appropriate.
Eat-Learn-Play
suggested donations: $5-a bajillion, non-perishable foods, or medical
supplies for folks going. No one turned away for lack of funds
Deric Shannon is a sociology instructor at the University of
Connecticut where he teaches Revolutionary Social Movements around the
World. He is the co-editor of "Contemporary Anarchist Studies" and the
forthcoming AK Press volume "An Economy of Sustainability: Anarchist
Economics". He is active in Food Not Bombs, labor support work, and
radical queer organizing.
Abbey Willis is an anarchist militant from Hartford, active in the
Workers Solidarity Alliance, The Hog River Collective, and Queers
without Borders. Her primary interests are organizing around
reproductive freedom and the intersections of race, class, gender, and
sexuality. Recently, she co-authored an article on queering anarchism
for an upcoming release of the journal "Sexualities".
Jerimarie Liesegang, PhD is a genderqueer anarchist and long time
Connecticut Trans Activist and Advocate. Jerimarie has been the
recipient of a number of awards, authored numerous published articles,
spoken on many panels and presented workshops around many social
justice and gender non-conforming issues. Jerimarie is a strong
advocate of multi-issue organizing in the spirit of Audrey Lorde’s
vision that “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because
we do not live single-issue
lives.”
Hannah Roush is a New Haven local, a psychiatric "survivor", a bike
mechanic, dog lover and companion, and a two-time college drop out who
is going back to school, again! She has worked on numerous projects,
including Chainbreakers, the Elm City InfoShop, East Coast Action
Medics, and helps out on other things where she can. She loves big
demos, street
art, zines, being friendly, and anything else that gets her heart
pumping faster. She's also androgynous, so feel free to call Hannah
"She" or "They".